A Description of the First or Aswan, Cataract of the Nile. By Dr. John Ball. Pp. 121; with 13 maps and plates, and 20 illustrations in the text. (Cairo: National Printing Department, 1907.) ...
At the site of Tombos, archaeologists have found that less-affluent laborers may be buried with upper-class people in pyramid ...
More than 3,000 years ago, between the first and second cataracts on the West Bank and the Nile, the Egyptian Pharaoh commanded ... to drown the ancient temple under the waters of the river. In an ...
THE NILE : THE LIFE STORY OF A RIVER —Emil Ludwig—Viking ($5 ... First readers found it appropriately like its subject: broken by cataracts, meandering, sometimes almost lost in swamps ...